First Mercury News Today

Introduction - Insurance coverage attorneys often face challenges when seeking to enforce policy exclusions on their clients’ behalf. To that end, New York appellate...

Two cases decided in 2021 illustrate how claims that negligence resulted in culpable social media posts may provide an avenue for savvy plaintiff lawyers to artfully plead to find coverage that would otherwise not exist.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 In September, we discussed a Florida district court’s finding that an insurer must defend a Miami strip club in a lawsuit filed by 17 models who alleged the club used their images to promote its business without authorization. Recently, an Illinois federal judge ruled similarly, ordering that First Mercury Insurance Company defend its insured, Triple Location, against a similar lawsuit. In  First Mercury Insurance Co. v. Triple Location LLC, three models sued ...